Associate Professor of Management and
Director of the Executive-In-Residence Program (EIRP)
“Teaching allows me the opportunity to plant seeds,” says Larry
Boone, Ph.D., the Associate Professor of
Management and Director of The Executive-in-Residence Program
for The Tobin College of Business. “I know those seeds will grow
and flourish everywhere St. John’s students may travel - even
though I may never know exactly where or how. It’s a good feeling
to have.”
One of the things that makes professors at St. John’s the most
proud, is their ability to inspire students to give back to the
communities they came from, “Over the last three years our MBA and
undergraduate Executive-in-Residence students have completed
strategy for some of the most effective not-for-profits in New York
City like Goodwill Industries, Covenant House, Catholic Medical
Mission Board and United Cerebral Palsy-Suffolk, just to name a
few,” says Dr. Boone.
Dr. Boone was recently awarded with the 2009 Vincentian Mission
Award for his dedication to the University’s mission in his
personal as well as professional life. In addition to his teaching
responsibilities, Dr. Boone is in charge of overseeing the
Executive-In-Residence program, which provides both undergraduate
and graduate students in-school opportunities to engage in
real-world business consulting with businesses and non-profit
organizations.
This past fall, six undergraduate Executive-In-Residence students
volunteered to work with Junior Achievement, the world’s largest
non-profit organization dedicated to educating students about
workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. The
students from the Executive-In-Residence program helped teach a
group of ninth grade students in a Brooklyn public school all about
financial literacy.
“I like to think that I help my students develop the ability to
make things happen, says Dr. Boone. “This requires good critical
thinking skills and a high degree of self-confidence. Structuring
challenging projects and supporting students as they work through
them is a good way to develop both.”
Dr. Boone is currently teaching courses in Business Management –
Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior and Leadership
and says it’s his daily interactions with positive students who
possess a desire to learn that has kept him engaged in the teaching
field for the past 22 years:
“Teaching at St. John’s has enabled me to realize a high degree of
personal fulfillment. I enjoy having the opportunity to work
with young people who truly want to learn and improve themselves
through higher education. At the end of each day I feel that I have
made a small contribution to the learning, judgment, and ethics
that will help future leaders of our society achieve great
things.”